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75th Year No. 33 Good Morning! It's Thursday, October 21, 1982 2 Sections 12 Pages 25 Cents
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Scoutmaster pleads
not guilty to charges
in branding incident
By Anne E. Schwartz
Mlssourian staff writer
MOBERLY Kenneth Harold
Willard, 19, pleaded not guilty
Wednesday to six counts of second- degr- ee
felony assault in connection
with the August branding of six
Huntsville Boy Scouts on a campout.
Willard was arraigned before Ran-dolph
County Circuit Judge Samuel
E. Semple at Moberly.
Willard's attorney, Patrick Eng,
filed a motion for a bill of partic-ulars,
asking that Randolph County
Prosecutor Phil Brown be more spe-cific
with what he charges Willard.
The six counts of felony assault
causing physical injury by means of
a dangerous instrument " could be
construed to mean anything," Eng
said.
The charges refer to a campout
the weekend of Aug. 13- 1- 5 near Hunt-sville
in Randolph County. Two
scoutmasters allegedly branded six
Huntsville Boy Scouts with a coat
hanger fashioned into the shape of
the male genitals.
Also at the arraignment, Brown
filed eight misdemeanor charges in
addition to the six felony charges al--
ready filed against Jean Gatzmeyer,
37, the other scoutmaster on the
campout. the eight additional
charges were filed only against
Gatzmeyer because " the informa-tion
received from the boys does not
implicate Willard in any of the mat--.
ters referred to in the. eight misde-meanor
charges," Brown said..
The newly filed' charges include
one count of peace disturbance,.--' in
which Gatzmeyer allegedly threat-ened
to castrate one of the boys, who
escaped the branding, if he told of
the incident.
Also included are seven counts of
endangering the welfare of a child,
in which Gatzmeyer allegedly told
the boys about various sexual acts,
and in one instance, ordered one boy
to sodomize another. The charges al-lege
Gatzmeyer told the boys not to
leave their tents unless they were
nude. Gatzmeyer's attorney, Wil-liam
Van Matre, could not be
reached for comment Wednesday.
Since the time lag between the
boys' report of the incident Aug. 15,
and the arrests Aug. 19 of Gatzmey-er
and Willard, several of the boys'
families have expressed discontent
' with the way Brown has been hand-ling
the case. At the preliminary
hearing Sept. 29, the families told
the Columbia Missourian they were
angry that the sexual overtones of
the case were being ignored.
Brown, however, holds that the
families have known since the ar-rests
of the scoutmasters that such '
charges would be filed.
After being surprised with the new
charges at the arraignment, Van
Matre asked for more time before
Gatzmeyer enters a plea. Van Matre
also filed a stipulation requesting a
change of venue to move Gatzmey-er's
trial to Monroe County. Eng
. said he probably will ask for a
change of venue as well.
Semple will arraign Gatzmeyer
and hear all motions on both cases
-- Nov. 3 in Moberly.
Doctor claims discovery
of way gene gives cancer
. United Press International
CHICAGO In an " exciting" de-velopment
in cancer research, a
Philadelphia scientist has discov-ered
the way a cancer- causin- g gene
may be activated to trigger the dis-ease,
it was disclosed Wednesday.
Dr. Carlo M. Croce of the Wistar
Institute of Anatomy and Biology,
reported the development at a Uni-versity
of Chicago symposium and
discussed it in a telephone interview.
" It's one step in a long process of'
understanding how a normal cell be-comes
a malignant cell," said Dr.
Janet D. Rowley, symposium coordi-nator
and an expert on abnormali-ties
in chromosomes. These are the
bodies within cells that carry the
genes that are. the basic heredity
factors.
Rowley said the development
could lead in several years to new
ways to treat cancer. " It is very ex-citing,"
she said.
Croce studied hereditary material
known as DNA from a patient with
Burkitt's lymphoma, a cancer in-volving
lymphoid cells most com-monly
found in African children, but
also in Europeans and Americans.
' He found that a gene known to
cause cancer in chickens'had moved
from one chromosome- - to another.
Moreover, Croce found that the can-cer
gene had recombined with an ac-tive
gene involved in the production
of immunoglobulin, a protein active
in the body's defenses against dis--
ease.
Dr. George Khoury, chief of the
laboratory of molecular virology at
the National Cancer Institute outside
of'Washington, said in discussing the
development that it suggests the ac-tive
gene " turned on" the cancer
gene.
Croce said his laboratory has evi-dence
fiat the cancer gene was acti-vated
and produced a protein.
He said the next step is to fird out
how that gene product works and
once . that is understood, he said re-searchers
will attempt to find a way
to shut it off.-
" We are all excited," he said. " We
are working around the clock."
A scientist from Harvard Univer-sity
reported at the same symposi-um
that Croce's . finding had been
confirmed in the Harvard lab.
Croce said his report soon would
be published in a scientific journal.
Rowley said the key to Croce's
work was identifying the genes on
both sides of one of the chromosome
rearrangements that were identified
previously in a particular human
cancer.
" Now we have defined the translo-cation
in terms of genetic abnormali-ty,"
Rowley said. " And finding that
the translocation involves one of
these known oncogenes ( cancer gen-es)
bringing it next to a functioning
gene in the cell. I think it's extreme-ly
important."
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Tickets are $ 1 at the door.
7 p. m. Planning and Zoning .
Commission meeting at the .
Council Chambers in the County- C-ity
Building, 701 E. Broad-way.
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A partisan crowd at Deja Vu, 701 Cherry St., cheers as the St, Louis Cardinals win the World Series.
Columbians celebrate in St. Louis spirit
By Michael Kodas
Missourian staff writer
- Caidinaipitcber Bruce Sutter-- woun- d
up for a final pitch and the
near- capaci- ty crowd at' Minsky's
Pizza quieted for the first time
Wednesday night.
Sutter unleased his blistering fast-ball,
Milwaukee Brewer slugger
Gorman Thomas swung and missed,
and Minsky's came as alive as the
picture on its big- vie- w TV screen.
Outside the Broadway pizza parlor
fans whooped and hollered through-out
Columbia's downtown, celebrat-ing
St. Louis' ninth World Series
championship.
Hours before the game, fans had
filled the restaurant and others like
it around town for the Series finale.
University law students Gary Tap- pa- na
and Jeff Herrs had managed to
occupy the front table at. Minsky's
-- mroughoatrtiie" playoffsand? thef irst
six of the Series games. But Wednes-day
night, they had to settle for seats
" a few rows back.
Tappana and'Herrs are cheerlead-ers
for a group of law students who
call themselves " The Relief Pitch-ers,"
identified for the amount of
beer they consume during games.
They openly showed their Redbird
spirit, dressed in various pieces of
Cardinal uniforms and leading the
pizza- bee- r crowd in choruses of
" Take Me Out to the Ballgame,"
" When the Cards Come Marching
Home" and " This Bud's for You."
" This is the peak of my life as a
fan," Tappana said as he raised his
finger to the screaming hordes that
pressed in behind him, stomping feet
and emptying beer pitchers in a
rhythm' usually reserved for rock
concerts.
" The game is great, but what a
crowd! " he exclaimed.
And when Keith Hernandez
knocked in two runs to knot the game
at 3-- 3 in the bottom of the sixth in-ning,
they celebrated the Cardinal
first baseman's birthday with a rous-ing
chorus of ' Happy birthday to
you, happy birthday to you . . . Keith
Hernandez!"
Fans at the Three Cheers Bar in
the Tiger Hotel relaxed in a cozy
crowd of a dozen and gazed quietly
at the television screen. Marvin
Brown, 41, who lives upstairs in the
hotel, slouched in his chair with the
mandatory Cardinals' baseball cap
and matching bright red socks.
Brown has watched the Series at
Columbia bars for the past eight
years.
As the Cards climbed to a two- ru- n
lead in the eighth, Brown sipped qui-etly
on his Budweiser. beer. " Now we
got some room to work with," he
said with a grin. Later, when the
Cards scored again, he yelled,
" We've got ' em now ! "
Back at Minsky's, University stu-dent
Mike Costentino sat dejectedly
as he watched the Cards slowly bat
away his $ 50 bet on the Brewers.
Gary Tappana walked slowly to
the door of the restaurant, his Cardi-nals'
visor now hanging around his
neck.
SaOor surrenders to give late Mother's Day gift
By Bob Rose
Missourian staff writer
When the phone rang at 3: 30 a. m.
last Friday at the Hallsville home of
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Phillips, it was
their son Michael who decided it was
time to give his mom a belated
Mother's Day present.
Michael, 19, had been absent with-out
leave from the Navy for seven
months. His family had conducted
frantic searches for him, but to no
avail. Friday those efforts paid off.
Michael, a seaman, was on a Navy
cruise tp Australia when he jumped
ship there in March. He had been in
the Navy for nine months, serving
much of that time in the Great
Lakes. According to his mother,
Peggy Phillips, he wrote home at
least once every week, and came
home for two days in January before
setting out on his Australian cruise.
Two months into the cruise, the
letters stopped.
On Mother's Day, the Navy told
Mrs. Phillips that her son was
AWOL.
Mrs. Phillips went to work imme-diately
to find her son. She says Sen.
John Danforth's office was helpful in
getting information from the Navy.
She discovered that her son had
jumped ship In Perth, Australia, but
nothing more.
" They ( Navy officials) were tell-ing
us everything that they could,"
Mrs. Phillips says. " They just didn't
know anything."
She and her family then started
making calls to Australia. She went
through the Australian Navy and a
missing persons bureau. These ef-forts
also turned up nothing.
Mrs. Phillips started playing the
waiting game.
" It was like the old saying, ' No
. news is good news,' " she says. The
Navy told her that she would have
been notified if her son were in some
kind of trouble.
But Mrs. Phillips got tired of wait-ing.
This time she decided to take
out an ad in the Perth Daily News,
asking her son to come home.
The newspaper heard of her plight
and published a story on Michael, in-cluding
his picture. Michael saw the
picture and phoned home on Friday.
The phone call resulted in feelings
of joy mixed with relief. " I really
didn't know what to think," his
mother said.
Michael then turned himself in to
Australian authorities. Details of his
return are not yet set.
According to the newspaper, Mi-chael
had been working in a foundry
to pay for his trip home.
He confirmed his desire to return
home with a call Sunday. " He called
me back and said, ' Ma, now who was
it that I'm supposed to get ahold
of? " Mrs. Phillips said.
Things have pretty much returned
to normal around the Phillips home,
where Michael's picture sits on an
table in a modestly furnished living
room. Homer Phillips was working
at his body repair shop in Hallsville.
His wife was picking up after a " toy
party" thrown by one of her grand-children.
Mrs. Phillips, a 44- year-- old woman
with hair tinted grey, is the mother
of five children. She sat barefoot on
the sofa, reflecting on what made
her son jump ship.
" He seemed real pleased with it
( the Navy)," she says. " I just don't
know what happened."
Mrs. Phillips says her son has
promised that he will explain what
happened in Australia when he re-turns.
Until then, she refuses to
speculate.
Michael will receive a loving wel-come
when he arrives home, but he
also faces a possible court martial.
Chief Lance Childress of the Navy
Recruiting Station in Columbia says
some type of court action usuallv re-sults
from such cases. The Navy
could discharge the seaman or issue
a fine. The decision probably wili de-pend
upon his record of previous
service, Childress says.
Court martial or not, Mrs. Phillips
says she's happy to receive her
Mother's Day present, even though
it will arrive six months late.
Local stakeout snares man wanted by U. S. marshals
By Robert Quick
Missourian staff writer
Columbia Police Officer Mike
West was . working traffic on North
Providence last Week and observed
a 1972 Buick drive past. West had a
hunch all wasn't right. He decided to
run a license check on the car, which
containedthree or four people.
The chain of events that followed
resembles the plot of a television po-lice
drama.
The National Crime Information
Center computer was not operating,
so West did not get an immediate re-sponse
to bis license check.
But when it came, the computer in-dicated
that a probable occupant of
the car, Illinois resident Larry Den- niso- n,
was wanted by the - U. S.
Marshal's Service on charges of
theft, mail fraud and sale of a stolen
vehicle. Dennison also was wanted
DGadKTD'
on a second warrant for interstate
transportation of a stolen vehicle.
In all, Dennison turned out to ' be
wanted on 17 indictments by the U. S.
attorney in Illinois, according to Lt.
Tom Hudson.
With that knowledge, West set out
to locate the black Buick. He located
the car at 5: 15 pjn. on Oct. 13 at Mo-tel
6, 1718 N. Providence Road.
A decision was made by investiga-tive
officers, headed by Sgt. John
Heidy, to try to apprehend the men
" with the least commotion and the
most safety forthe public," Hudson . says. Heidy heads up the depart-ment's
intelligence squad.
A stakeout was set up at the motel
about 7 pjn., and Sam Grace, man-ager
of the motel, was notified.
I
Grace says he did not tell guests of
the stakeout because he didn't want
to frighten them. " I learned a long
time ago that it is better to let things
ride along as they are," he says.
Seven officers remained at the mo-tel
throughout the night, and several
others were on hand until 11 p. m.
Two were stationed in a room ad-joining
the one occupied by the men.
Another was stationed in the lot
while the other four officers pa---
trolled the area.
Officers waited through the night
for the men to leave the room so they
could determine whether they were
armed. The officers wanted to arrest
the men in an open area, away from
bystanders.
Their chance came at' 8 a. m.. One
of the men left the room to get a
pack of cigarettes. Officers waited
until the man was out of earshot of
the room and arrested him. He was
identified as Larry Dennison.
Later, another man left the room
and walked to the car, where he was
apprehended.
The two remaining men came to
the door of the room after hearing
the commotion and also were appre-hended.
One of them was James
Dennison, Larry Dennison ' s younger
brother. He was arrested on a
charge of deceiving an officer. The
other two, unidentified, were re-leased
after police checks turned up
no warrants for their arrest.
Police found only a dummy gun, a replica of a real handgun, in the
trunk of the car and a hunting knife
in the motel room. Heidy says the re- port they had received from the Na-tional
Crime Information Center in-dicated
that the elder Dennison was
believed to be armed and had used a gun.
Police found more than 10 stolen
credit cards in the room and in Lar-ry
Dennison's possession.
Heidy says he was unsure whether
vthe car the men had been driving
was stolen. " It had three different ti-tles
and two sets of license plates,"
he says.
Charges against James Dennison
were dropped Oct. 15, and he was re-leased,
Hudson says.
Larry Dennison was taken " to Kan-sas
City, Mo., by VS. marshals for
arraignment and then to Illinois,
where he faces the 17 indictments.
Dennison could receive a possible to-tal
sentence of 50 years in prison an- dor fines totaling $ 43,000.
And but for a hunch, the fugitive
still might be on the road.
" I guess there's always a little bit
of sixth sense in officers," says Hud-son.

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Scoutmaster pleads
not guilty to charges
in branding incident
By Anne E. Schwartz
Mlssourian staff writer
MOBERLY Kenneth Harold
Willard, 19, pleaded not guilty
Wednesday to six counts of second- degr- ee
felony assault in connection
with the August branding of six
Huntsville Boy Scouts on a campout.
Willard was arraigned before Ran-dolph
County Circuit Judge Samuel
E. Semple at Moberly.
Willard's attorney, Patrick Eng,
filed a motion for a bill of partic-ulars,
asking that Randolph County
Prosecutor Phil Brown be more spe-cific
with what he charges Willard.
The six counts of felony assault
causing physical injury by means of
a dangerous instrument " could be
construed to mean anything," Eng
said.
The charges refer to a campout
the weekend of Aug. 13- 1- 5 near Hunt-sville
in Randolph County. Two
scoutmasters allegedly branded six
Huntsville Boy Scouts with a coat
hanger fashioned into the shape of
the male genitals.
Also at the arraignment, Brown
filed eight misdemeanor charges in
addition to the six felony charges al--
ready filed against Jean Gatzmeyer,
37, the other scoutmaster on the
campout. the eight additional
charges were filed only against
Gatzmeyer because " the informa-tion
received from the boys does not
implicate Willard in any of the mat--.
ters referred to in the. eight misde-meanor
charges," Brown said..
The newly filed' charges include
one count of peace disturbance,.--' in
which Gatzmeyer allegedly threat-ened
to castrate one of the boys, who
escaped the branding, if he told of
the incident.
Also included are seven counts of
endangering the welfare of a child,
in which Gatzmeyer allegedly told
the boys about various sexual acts,
and in one instance, ordered one boy
to sodomize another. The charges al-lege
Gatzmeyer told the boys not to
leave their tents unless they were
nude. Gatzmeyer's attorney, Wil-liam
Van Matre, could not be
reached for comment Wednesday.
Since the time lag between the
boys' report of the incident Aug. 15,
and the arrests Aug. 19 of Gatzmey-er
and Willard, several of the boys'
families have expressed discontent
' with the way Brown has been hand-ling
the case. At the preliminary
hearing Sept. 29, the families told
the Columbia Missourian they were
angry that the sexual overtones of
the case were being ignored.
Brown, however, holds that the
families have known since the ar-rests
of the scoutmasters that such '
charges would be filed.
After being surprised with the new
charges at the arraignment, Van
Matre asked for more time before
Gatzmeyer enters a plea. Van Matre
also filed a stipulation requesting a
change of venue to move Gatzmey-er's
trial to Monroe County. Eng
. said he probably will ask for a
change of venue as well.
Semple will arraign Gatzmeyer
and hear all motions on both cases
-- Nov. 3 in Moberly.
Doctor claims discovery
of way gene gives cancer
. United Press International
CHICAGO In an " exciting" de-velopment
in cancer research, a
Philadelphia scientist has discov-ered
the way a cancer- causin- g gene
may be activated to trigger the dis-ease,
it was disclosed Wednesday.
Dr. Carlo M. Croce of the Wistar
Institute of Anatomy and Biology,
reported the development at a Uni-versity
of Chicago symposium and
discussed it in a telephone interview.
" It's one step in a long process of'
understanding how a normal cell be-comes
a malignant cell," said Dr.
Janet D. Rowley, symposium coordi-nator
and an expert on abnormali-ties
in chromosomes. These are the
bodies within cells that carry the
genes that are. the basic heredity
factors.
Rowley said the development
could lead in several years to new
ways to treat cancer. " It is very ex-citing,"
she said.
Croce studied hereditary material
known as DNA from a patient with
Burkitt's lymphoma, a cancer in-volving
lymphoid cells most com-monly
found in African children, but
also in Europeans and Americans.
' He found that a gene known to
cause cancer in chickens'had moved
from one chromosome- - to another.
Moreover, Croce found that the can-cer
gene had recombined with an ac-tive
gene involved in the production
of immunoglobulin, a protein active
in the body's defenses against dis--
ease.
Dr. George Khoury, chief of the
laboratory of molecular virology at
the National Cancer Institute outside
of'Washington, said in discussing the
development that it suggests the ac-tive
gene " turned on" the cancer
gene.
Croce said his laboratory has evi-dence
fiat the cancer gene was acti-vated
and produced a protein.
He said the next step is to fird out
how that gene product works and
once . that is understood, he said re-searchers
will attempt to find a way
to shut it off.-
" We are all excited," he said. " We
are working around the clock."
A scientist from Harvard Univer-sity
reported at the same symposi-um
that Croce's . finding had been
confirmed in the Harvard lab.
Croce said his report soon would
be published in a scientific journal.
Rowley said the key to Croce's
work was identifying the genes on
both sides of one of the chromosome
rearrangements that were identified
previously in a particular human
cancer.
" Now we have defined the translo-cation
in terms of genetic abnormali-ty,"
Rowley said. " And finding that
the translocation involves one of
these known oncogenes ( cancer gen-es)
bringing it next to a functioning
gene in the cell. I think it's extreme-ly
important."
7: 30 p. m. " This Property is
Condemned." Play at Gentry
Theater on the University cam-pus.
Tickets are $ 1 at the door.
7 p. m. Planning and Zoning .
Commission meeting at the .
Council Chambers in the County- C-ity
Building, 701 E. Broad-way.
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A partisan crowd at Deja Vu, 701 Cherry St., cheers as the St, Louis Cardinals win the World Series.
Columbians celebrate in St. Louis spirit
By Michael Kodas
Missourian staff writer
- Caidinaipitcber Bruce Sutter-- woun- d
up for a final pitch and the
near- capaci- ty crowd at' Minsky's
Pizza quieted for the first time
Wednesday night.
Sutter unleased his blistering fast-ball,
Milwaukee Brewer slugger
Gorman Thomas swung and missed,
and Minsky's came as alive as the
picture on its big- vie- w TV screen.
Outside the Broadway pizza parlor
fans whooped and hollered through-out
Columbia's downtown, celebrat-ing
St. Louis' ninth World Series
championship.
Hours before the game, fans had
filled the restaurant and others like
it around town for the Series finale.
University law students Gary Tap- pa- na
and Jeff Herrs had managed to
occupy the front table at. Minsky's
-- mroughoatrtiie" playoffsand? thef irst
six of the Series games. But Wednes-day
night, they had to settle for seats
" a few rows back.
Tappana and'Herrs are cheerlead-ers
for a group of law students who
call themselves " The Relief Pitch-ers,"
identified for the amount of
beer they consume during games.
They openly showed their Redbird
spirit, dressed in various pieces of
Cardinal uniforms and leading the
pizza- bee- r crowd in choruses of
" Take Me Out to the Ballgame,"
" When the Cards Come Marching
Home" and " This Bud's for You."
" This is the peak of my life as a
fan," Tappana said as he raised his
finger to the screaming hordes that
pressed in behind him, stomping feet
and emptying beer pitchers in a
rhythm' usually reserved for rock
concerts.
" The game is great, but what a
crowd! " he exclaimed.
And when Keith Hernandez
knocked in two runs to knot the game
at 3-- 3 in the bottom of the sixth in-ning,
they celebrated the Cardinal
first baseman's birthday with a rous-ing
chorus of ' Happy birthday to
you, happy birthday to you . . . Keith
Hernandez!"
Fans at the Three Cheers Bar in
the Tiger Hotel relaxed in a cozy
crowd of a dozen and gazed quietly
at the television screen. Marvin
Brown, 41, who lives upstairs in the
hotel, slouched in his chair with the
mandatory Cardinals' baseball cap
and matching bright red socks.
Brown has watched the Series at
Columbia bars for the past eight
years.
As the Cards climbed to a two- ru- n
lead in the eighth, Brown sipped qui-etly
on his Budweiser. beer. " Now we
got some room to work with," he
said with a grin. Later, when the
Cards scored again, he yelled,
" We've got ' em now ! "
Back at Minsky's, University stu-dent
Mike Costentino sat dejectedly
as he watched the Cards slowly bat
away his $ 50 bet on the Brewers.
Gary Tappana walked slowly to
the door of the restaurant, his Cardi-nals'
visor now hanging around his
neck.
SaOor surrenders to give late Mother's Day gift
By Bob Rose
Missourian staff writer
When the phone rang at 3: 30 a. m.
last Friday at the Hallsville home of
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Phillips, it was
their son Michael who decided it was
time to give his mom a belated
Mother's Day present.
Michael, 19, had been absent with-out
leave from the Navy for seven
months. His family had conducted
frantic searches for him, but to no
avail. Friday those efforts paid off.
Michael, a seaman, was on a Navy
cruise tp Australia when he jumped
ship there in March. He had been in
the Navy for nine months, serving
much of that time in the Great
Lakes. According to his mother,
Peggy Phillips, he wrote home at
least once every week, and came
home for two days in January before
setting out on his Australian cruise.
Two months into the cruise, the
letters stopped.
On Mother's Day, the Navy told
Mrs. Phillips that her son was
AWOL.
Mrs. Phillips went to work imme-diately
to find her son. She says Sen.
John Danforth's office was helpful in
getting information from the Navy.
She discovered that her son had
jumped ship In Perth, Australia, but
nothing more.
" They ( Navy officials) were tell-ing
us everything that they could,"
Mrs. Phillips says. " They just didn't
know anything."
She and her family then started
making calls to Australia. She went
through the Australian Navy and a
missing persons bureau. These ef-forts
also turned up nothing.
Mrs. Phillips started playing the
waiting game.
" It was like the old saying, ' No
. news is good news,' " she says. The
Navy told her that she would have
been notified if her son were in some
kind of trouble.
But Mrs. Phillips got tired of wait-ing.
This time she decided to take
out an ad in the Perth Daily News,
asking her son to come home.
The newspaper heard of her plight
and published a story on Michael, in-cluding
his picture. Michael saw the
picture and phoned home on Friday.
The phone call resulted in feelings
of joy mixed with relief. " I really
didn't know what to think," his
mother said.
Michael then turned himself in to
Australian authorities. Details of his
return are not yet set.
According to the newspaper, Mi-chael
had been working in a foundry
to pay for his trip home.
He confirmed his desire to return
home with a call Sunday. " He called
me back and said, ' Ma, now who was
it that I'm supposed to get ahold
of? " Mrs. Phillips said.
Things have pretty much returned
to normal around the Phillips home,
where Michael's picture sits on an
table in a modestly furnished living
room. Homer Phillips was working
at his body repair shop in Hallsville.
His wife was picking up after a " toy
party" thrown by one of her grand-children.
Mrs. Phillips, a 44- year-- old woman
with hair tinted grey, is the mother
of five children. She sat barefoot on
the sofa, reflecting on what made
her son jump ship.
" He seemed real pleased with it
( the Navy)," she says. " I just don't
know what happened."
Mrs. Phillips says her son has
promised that he will explain what
happened in Australia when he re-turns.
Until then, she refuses to
speculate.
Michael will receive a loving wel-come
when he arrives home, but he
also faces a possible court martial.
Chief Lance Childress of the Navy
Recruiting Station in Columbia says
some type of court action usuallv re-sults
from such cases. The Navy
could discharge the seaman or issue
a fine. The decision probably wili de-pend
upon his record of previous
service, Childress says.
Court martial or not, Mrs. Phillips
says she's happy to receive her
Mother's Day present, even though
it will arrive six months late.
Local stakeout snares man wanted by U. S. marshals
By Robert Quick
Missourian staff writer
Columbia Police Officer Mike
West was . working traffic on North
Providence last Week and observed
a 1972 Buick drive past. West had a
hunch all wasn't right. He decided to
run a license check on the car, which
containedthree or four people.
The chain of events that followed
resembles the plot of a television po-lice
drama.
The National Crime Information
Center computer was not operating,
so West did not get an immediate re-sponse
to bis license check.
But when it came, the computer in-dicated
that a probable occupant of
the car, Illinois resident Larry Den- niso- n,
was wanted by the - U. S.
Marshal's Service on charges of
theft, mail fraud and sale of a stolen
vehicle. Dennison also was wanted
DGadKTD'
on a second warrant for interstate
transportation of a stolen vehicle.
In all, Dennison turned out to ' be
wanted on 17 indictments by the U. S.
attorney in Illinois, according to Lt.
Tom Hudson.
With that knowledge, West set out
to locate the black Buick. He located
the car at 5: 15 pjn. on Oct. 13 at Mo-tel
6, 1718 N. Providence Road.
A decision was made by investiga-tive
officers, headed by Sgt. John
Heidy, to try to apprehend the men
" with the least commotion and the
most safety forthe public," Hudson . says. Heidy heads up the depart-ment's
intelligence squad.
A stakeout was set up at the motel
about 7 pjn., and Sam Grace, man-ager
of the motel, was notified.
I
Grace says he did not tell guests of
the stakeout because he didn't want
to frighten them. " I learned a long
time ago that it is better to let things
ride along as they are," he says.
Seven officers remained at the mo-tel
throughout the night, and several
others were on hand until 11 p. m.
Two were stationed in a room ad-joining
the one occupied by the men.
Another was stationed in the lot
while the other four officers pa---
trolled the area.
Officers waited through the night
for the men to leave the room so they
could determine whether they were
armed. The officers wanted to arrest
the men in an open area, away from
bystanders.
Their chance came at' 8 a. m.. One
of the men left the room to get a
pack of cigarettes. Officers waited
until the man was out of earshot of
the room and arrested him. He was
identified as Larry Dennison.
Later, another man left the room
and walked to the car, where he was
apprehended.
The two remaining men came to
the door of the room after hearing
the commotion and also were appre-hended.
One of them was James
Dennison, Larry Dennison ' s younger
brother. He was arrested on a
charge of deceiving an officer. The
other two, unidentified, were re-leased
after police checks turned up
no warrants for their arrest.
Police found only a dummy gun, a replica of a real handgun, in the
trunk of the car and a hunting knife
in the motel room. Heidy says the re- port they had received from the Na-tional
Crime Information Center in-dicated
that the elder Dennison was
believed to be armed and had used a gun.
Police found more than 10 stolen
credit cards in the room and in Lar-ry
Dennison's possession.
Heidy says he was unsure whether
vthe car the men had been driving
was stolen. " It had three different ti-tles
and two sets of license plates,"
he says.
Charges against James Dennison
were dropped Oct. 15, and he was re-leased,
Hudson says.
Larry Dennison was taken " to Kan-sas
City, Mo., by VS. marshals for
arraignment and then to Illinois,
where he faces the 17 indictments.
Dennison could receive a possible to-tal
sentence of 50 years in prison an- dor fines totaling $ 43,000.
And but for a hunch, the fugitive
still might be on the road.
" I guess there's always a little bit
of sixth sense in officers," says Hud-son.